Northwest History. State History. Box 76. Columbia Basin.

The senate committee on irrigation
and reclamation will open a
hearing tomorrow morning on
charges of speculation in Grand
Coulee lands. The hearing is in
connection with senate bill 2172
which is intended to control the
sale of reclaimed lands and prevent harmful speculation.
According to Senator Lewis B.
Schwellenbach many prominent citizens of the state of Washington
will appear before the committee.
White House Gives Approval
Passage of the senate bill will
bring an additional sum of $7,750,-
000 to the Gran Coulee construction. Senator Schwellenbach told
Transradio that President Roosevelt has given his approval to the
The publisher of the Wenatchee
World, Rufus Woods; Commissioner of Reclamation John Page, the
secretary of the Columbia Basin
commission, J. O'Sullivan, and Nathan Marigold, solicitor for the
department of the interior will appear in behalf of the bill regulating
the sale of reclaimed lands.i

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The senate committee on irrigation
and reclamation will open a
hearing tomorrow morning on
charges of speculation in Grand
Coulee lands. The hearing is in
connection with senate bill 2172
which is intended to control the
sale of reclaimed lands and prevent harmful speculation.
According to Senator Lewis B.
Schwellenbach many prominent citizens of the state of Washington
will appear before the committee.
White House Gives Approval
Passage of the senate bill will
bring an additional sum of $7,750,-
000 to the Gran Coulee construction. Senator Schwellenbach told
Transradio that President Roosevelt has given his approval to the
The publisher of the Wenatchee
World, Rufus Woods; Commissioner of Reclamation John Page, the
secretary of the Columbia Basin
commission, J. O'Sullivan, and Nathan Marigold, solicitor for the
department of the interior will appear in behalf of the bill regulating
the sale of reclaimed lands.i